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32 Cards in this Set
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Melody
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is an organized set of pitches
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Tune
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the most familiar of melodies in western music, it is a simple, easily singable, catchy melody
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phrase
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smaller sections of tunes, that have a clear and sharp division
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sequence
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duplication of a phrase in two or more different pitch levels, which enhances parallelism
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climax
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a distinct high point that has been built up to
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Cadence
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interim stopping or pausing
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Motive
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a distinct fragment of melody, distinctive enough so that when it returns again it will be easily recognized
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theme
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a general term for the basic subject matter of longer pieces of music.
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Theme refers to the _______ not the _______ of a piece
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accompaniments
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melodies together with other sounds
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chords
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a number of standard groupings of simultaneous pitches that practice has shown are sure to work well in combination
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harmony
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having to do with chords, or the "vertical" apsect of musical texture
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harmonizing
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the continuous matrix of changing chords provides a sort of contantly shifting sound background for the piece
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consonance
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intervals or chords that sound relatively stable and free of tension
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dissonance
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intervals or chords that sound relatively tense or unstable
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resolve
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to proceed from disonent harmony to consonent
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texture
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is the term used to refer to the blend of the various sounds and melodic lines occuring simultaneously in music
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monophony
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simplest texture, a single unaccompanied melody
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heterophy
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a monophonic texture in which subtly differet versions of a single melody are presented simultaneously
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homophony
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when there is only one melody of real interest combined with other sounds (harmony)
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counterpoint
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the technique of writing two or more melodies that fit together
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imitative polyphony
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reults when the various lines sounding together use the same or fairly similar melodies, with one coming in shortly after the other i.e. a round
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non-imitative polyphony
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occurs when the melodies are essentially different from one another
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tonality
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the homin instinct that we sense in melodies
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tonal
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describes tonality
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tonic
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in "tonal" music the central sounding note
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modality
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the term for 2 types of tonality- major and minor mode, also one of the several orientations of the diatonic scale
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modes
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the different "home" pitches
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major mode
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music with tthe "do" in the center
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minor mode
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music with the "la" in the center
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keys
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the different positions possible for the major and minor scale
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modulation
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changing keys in the course of a composition
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